On This Day — August 9
3929 noted people were born and 1896 died on August 9 in our archive, including Erich Hückel, Marvin Minsky and Yves Coppens.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on August 9
Erich Hückel
1896 – 1980
Marvin Minsky
1927 – 2016
Yves Coppens
1934 – 2022
Adolf Mayer
1843 – 1942
Alexander Bovin
1930 – 2004
Alfred G. Knudson
1922 – 2016
Anand Panyarachun
b. 1932
Armand Salacrou
1899 – 1989
Chris Cuomo
b. 1970
Constantin von Dietze
1891 – 1973
David Kalisch
b. 1960
Dmitry Azarov
b. 1970
Eino Kaila
1890 – 1958
Gaston Paris
1839 – 1903
Hans Jürgen Briegel
b. 1962
Helga Nowotny
b. 1937
Henry Ingersoll Bowditch
1808 – 1892
Hoda Kotb
b. 1964
Hugh R. Brady
b. 1959
Jacques-Antoine Granjon
b. 1962
James Freeman Gilbert
1931 – 2014
James Naughtie
b. 1951
Jean Piaget
1896 – 1980
Jean Tirole
b. 1953
Jean-Claude Hollerich
b. 1958
John Key
b. 1961
John Kiriakou
b. 1964
John Simpson
b. 1944
José Manuel González Paramo
b. 1958
Kazushige Ugaki
1868 – 1956
Leona Woods
1919 – 1986
Linda Keen
b. 1940
Lui Che Woo
1929 – 2024
Major Greenwood
1880 – 1949
Marat Khusnullin
b. 1966
Maria Guleghina
b. 1959
Philip Larkin
1922 – 1985
Roman Longchamps de Bérier
1883 – 1941
Romano Prodi
b. 1939
Sarah McBride
b. 1990
Sarah Stroumsa
b. 1950
Sirje Karis
b. 1956
Tam Dalyell
1932 – 2017
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
b. 1933
Tohru Fukuyama
b. 1948
Tom M. Mitchell
b. 1951
Vardges Petrosyan
1932 – 1994
Vavro Šrobár
1867 – 1950
Vivek Ramaswamy
b. 1985
Xie Fuzhan
b. 1954
Yevgeniya Lamonova
b. 1983
Abdi İpekçi
1929 – 1979
Ahmed Rami
1892 – 1981
Akira Ikegami
b. 1950
Alexander Pavlovich Vinogradov
1895 – 1975
Alexandre Quintanilha
b. 1945
Alladi Ramakrishnan
1923 – 2008
Amedeo Avogadro
1776 – 1856
Aminu Kano
1920 – 1983
Amir Haskel
b. 1953
Amy Hood
b. 1971
Anatole Katok
1944 – 2018
Andrey Vladimirovich Tarasenko
b. 1963
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
b. 1962
Antonius Thysius the Elder
1565 – 1640
Armando Carlini
1878 – 1959
Arnold Vaatz
b. 1955
Arturo Zaldívar Lelo de Larrea
b. 1959
Bernard Cracroft Aston
1871 – 1951
Brooks Hays
1898 – 1981
Bruce Nelson
1940 – 2022
C. U. Ariëns Kappers
1877 – 1946
Calie Pistorius
b. 1958
Charles Djou
b. 1970
Charles Nagel
1849 – 1940
Chris Dailey
b. 1959
Dieter Salomon
b. 1960
Dmitry Chechulin
1901 – 1981
Dorin Chirtoacă
b. 1978
Eleonore Stump
b. 1947
Elli Schmidt
1908 – 1980
Elshan Hajizadeh
b. 1961
Emine Bozkurt
b. 1967
Erik Allardt
1925 – 2020
Ernst Posner
1892 – 1980
Eugenius Marius Uhlenbeck
1913 – 2003
Evgeny Kniazev
b. 1955
Ferenc Fricsay
1914 – 1963
Francis Basset, 1st Baron de Dunstanville and Basset
1757 – 1835
George Loewenstein
b. 1955
Gilles de Roberval
1602 – 1675
Glenn Postolski
1966 – 2024
Grigory Beryozkin
b. 1966
Habib Chatti
1916 – 1991
Halyna Hereha
b. 1959
Harue Yamashita
1901 – 1985
Hugh Cleghorn
1820 – 1895
Hugo Blümner
1844 – 1919
Igor Markevitch
1912 – 1983
Ingvald Smith-Kielland
1890 – 1984
Ioan Lupaș
1880 – 1967
Ioan Mire Melik
1840 – 1889
Isabel Schnabel
b. 1971
Issa Hayatou
1946 – 2024
Jacek Salij
b. 1942
Jacob Moleschott
1822 – 1893
Jacques Parizeau
1930 – 2015
James Augustine Shannon
1904 – 1994
Jao Tsung-I
1917 – 2018
Jason Heyward
b. 1989
Johannes Cocceius
1603 – 1669
John Dryden
1631 – 1700
John Townshend, 1st Earl Sydney
1805 – 1890
John Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley
1781 – 1833
John William Simpson
1858 – 1933
Joop den Uyl
1919 – 1987
Joseph McBride
b. 1947
Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín
1927 – 2006
Justo Arosemena Quesada
1817 – 1896
Karol Sidon
b. 1942
Lars Feld
b. 1966
Laurie Bauer
b. 1949
Leon Katz
1909 – 2004
Leonid Kuchma
b. 1938
Lola Bobesco
1921 – 2003
Ludwig Winter
1846 – 1912
Luis Maira
b. 1940
Luo Changpei
1899 – 1958
Manea Mănescu
1916 – 2009
Marek Kuchciński
b. 1955
Maria do Carmo Fonseca
b. 1959
Marjatta Väänänen
1923 – 2020
Mark Romer, Baron Romer
1866 – 1944
Masaharu Gotōda
1914 – 2005
Michael Russell
b. 1953
Miguel Littin
b. 1942
Muhammad Najib
b. 1960
Nabeel Shaath
b. 1938
Nadezhda Neynski
b. 1962
Norman Davis
1878 – 1944
Oleg Romanov
b. 1975
Olexander Omelchenko
1938 – 2021
Panteleimon Ponomarenko
1902 – 1984
Park Hee-tae
b. 1938
Patrick Spens, 1st Baron Spens
1885 – 1973
Paul Richard Heinrich Blasius
1883 – 1970
Paul Warwick Thompson
b. 1959
Pavel Unterberger
1842 – 1921
Peter Hartz
b. 1941
Petra Pau
b. 1963
Philip Bradbourn
1951 – 2014
Philip Whistler Street
1863 – 1938
Pierre Charles L’Enfant
1754 – 1825
Pietro Bucalossi
1905 – 1992
Posy Simmonds
b. 1945
Prince Antônio Gastão of Brazil
1881 – 1918
Ramón Pérez de Ayala
1880 – 1962
Richard Mattessich
1922 – 2019
Roman Romanenko
b. 1971
S. R. Ranganathan
1892 – 1972
Salvatore Satta
1902 – 1975
Sigmund Riefler
1847 – 1912
Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet
1737 – 1820
Stanisław Badeni
1850 – 1912
Stinus Lindgreen
b. 1980
Stéphane Rossini
b. 1963
Tarja Filatov
b. 1963
Teofilo Torres Corzo
1946 – 2023
Thomas Leigh Gatch
1891 – 1953
Ulrich Dirnagl
b. 1960
Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton
1876 – 1947
Virender Lal Chopra
1936 – 2020
Vladimir Beneshevich
1874 – 1938
Volker Hauff
b. 1940
Volodymyr Kozak
b. 1959
Vytenis Andriukaitis
b. 1951
Wilbur Norman Christiansen
1913 – 2007
William Alfred Fowler
1911 – 1995
Wouter Beke
b. 1974
Yuri Gulyayev
1930 – 1986
Yves Balasko
b. 1945
Zaïr Kédadouche
b. 1957
Zoryana Skaletska
b. 1980
Àngel Ros
b. 1952
A-Mei
b. 1972
Aaron Fletcher Stevens
1819 – 1887
Abdul Rahman Mustafa
b. 1951
Abraham Poraz
b. 1945
Achille Valenciennes
1794 – 1865
Adam von Trott zu Solz
1909 – 1944
Adelaide Kane
b. 1990
Alan McFarland
b. 1949
Albert O. Vorse, Jr.
1914 – 1979
Alec Spalding
1923 – 2007
Alejandro Jadad
b. 1963
Aleksandr Chernyshyov
1882 – 1940
Aleksandr Gorelik
1945 – 2012
Alex Quaison-Sackey
1924 – 1992
Alexander Hawkins Graham
1890 – 1977
Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov
1894 – 1971
… and 3,729 more
Died on August 9
Edward Thorndike
1874 – 1949
Ernst Haeckel
1834 – 1919
John Charles Fields
1863 – 1932
Sergei Kovalev
1930 – 2021
Steve Shirley
1933 – 2025
Susan Wojcicki
1968 – 2024
Alvin Luedecke
1910 – 1998
Cecil Frank Powell
1903 – 1969
Constantin Ion Parhon
1874 – 1969
Dmitri Shostakovich
1906 – 1975
Edward Frankland
1825 – 1899
Ernest Munier-Chalmas
1843 – 1903
Fernando Villavicencio
1963 – 2023
Gene F. Franklin
1927 – 2012
Henry Pease
1944 – 2014
Hugh Segal
1950 – 2023
James A. Van Allen
1914 – 2006
John Harsanyi
1920 – 2000
Pierre Fatou
1878 – 1929
René Taton
1915 – 2004
Roberto Busa
1913 – 2011
Ruth Teitelbaum
1924 – 1986
Ted Stevens
1923 – 2010
Timothy Garden, Baron Garden
1944 – 2007
Walter Bedell Smith
1895 – 1961
Władysław Orlicz
1903 – 1990
Abraham H. Taub
1911 – 1999
Aftab Ghulam Nabi Kazi
1919 – 2016
Alberts Kviesis
1881 – 1944
Alfred Wills
1828 – 1912
Auguste Kerckhoffs
1835 – 1903
Brice Marden
1938 – 2023
Dmitry Kostomarov
1929 – 2014
Ernst Neizvestny
1925 – 2016
Florentino Asensio Barroso
1877 – 1936
Frank Whittle
1907 – 1996
Friedrich II, Grand Duke of Baden
1857 – 1928
Friedrich Ratzel
1844 – 1904
Gay van der Meer
1924 – 2014
Geoffrey Marshall
1887 – 1982
Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster
1951 – 2016
Gerard J. Campbell
1919 – 2012
Graham Wallas
1858 – 1932
Gustav S. Christensen
1929 – 2007
Harry Notenboom
1926 – 2023
Henry Moncreiff Wellwood
1750 – 1827
Hermann Sasse
1895 – 1976
Humphry Bowen
1929 – 2001
Ion Vatamanu
1937 – 1993
Ita Ever
1931 – 2023
Ivan I. Krasko
1930 – 2025
Ivan Melezh
1921 – 1976
James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos
1673 – 1744
Jan Szembek
1881 – 1945
Janie Shores
1932 – 2017
Lee Spetner
1927 – 2024
Leo Frobenius
1873 – 1938
Mahmoud Farshchian
1930 – 2025
Meredith Gardner
1912 – 2002
Merle G. Kearns
1938 – 2014
Mikhail Akimov
1847 – 1914
Naftali Tishby
1952 – 2021
Nina Mikhailovna Chernovna
1935 – 2010
Otto Wagener
1888 – 1971
Pelham D. Glassford
1883 – 1959
Philip J. Klass
1919 – 2005
Pyotr Fomenko
1932 – 2012
Ralph Wise Zwicker
1903 – 1991
Reginald Innes Pocock
1863 – 1947
Robert Lecourt
1908 – 2004
Robert Sibbald
1641 – 1722
Rudolf Fueter
1880 – 1950
Samuel Griffith
1845 – 1920
Stanislao Loffreda
1932 – 2025
Thomas Cajetan
1469 – 1534
Trần Đại Nghĩa
1913 – 1997
Tsuruyo Kondō
1901 – 1970
Véronique Trillet-Lenoir
1957 – 2023
William Frederick Durand
1859 – 1958
Yellapragada Subbarow
1895 – 1948
Yury Butusov
1961 – 2025
Zygmunt Dworakowski
1905 – 1971
Abel Manta
1888 – 1982
Abraham X. Parker
1831 – 1909
Ahmed Cevad Pasha
1850 – 1900
Aili Jõgi
1931 – 2017
Al McCandless
1927 – 2017
Albert J. Campbell
1857 – 1907
Albrecht Elof Ihre
1797 – 1877
Alec Skempton
1914 – 2001
Alex Cord
1933 – 2021
Alfons von Rosthorn
1857 – 1909
Alfred J. Pearson
1869 – 1939
Alibaba Abdullayev
1915 – 1980
Alonzo J. Edgerton
1827 – 1896
Ambrosе (Gudko)
1867 – 1918
Amnon Barzel
1935 – 2025
Anders Sparrman
1748 – 1820
Andrew Combe
1797 – 1847
Andrey, Metropolitan of New York
1886 – 1972
Andriy Bal
1958 – 2014
Antanas Žmuidzinavičius
1876 – 1966
Anthony Peter Khoraish
1907 – 1994
Antoine de Brichanteau
1505 – 1617
Anton Walbrook
1896 – 1967
Antoni Wierzejski
1843 – 1916
Antonino Pietro Gullotti
1922 – 1989
Archie Elliott, Lord Elliott
1922 – 2008
Arno Anthoni
1900 – 1961
Arnold Genthe
1869 – 1942
Ashraf Hasanov
1909 – 1983
Audu Innocent Ogbeh
1947 – 2025
Bardhok Biba
1920 – 1949
Ben Jones
1941 – 2026
Beryl May Dent
1900 – 1977
Bill Dooley
1934 – 2016
Blanche Colton Williams
1879 – 1944
Bob Jenkins
1947 – 2021
Bob Kiley
1935 – 2016
Brendan Halligan
1936 – 2020
Brynhild Haugland
1905 – 1998
C. Stuart Gager
1872 – 1943
Camille Vallin
1918 – 2009
Carl Clauberg
1898 – 1957
Charles Cecil Cotes
1846 – 1898
Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Marquess Cornwallis
1774 – 1823
Charles James Martin
1886 – 1955
Charles Mewès
1858 – 1914
Charles-Aimé Kirkland
1896 – 1961
Christopher Benfield Carter
1844 – 1906
Claude Phillips
1846 – 1924
Creighton Hale
1882 – 1965
Czeslaw Znamierowski
1890 – 1977
Darrell R. Lindsey
1919 – 1944
David Rakoff
1964 – 2012
Denis Glover
1912 – 1980
Derek Smith
1961 – 1996
Dick Langley
1937 – 2017
Dmitry Kharitonov
1896 – 1970
Domenico Pinelli
1541 – 1611
Don Nelson
1940 – 2026
Earl Taft
1931 – 2021
Edith Stein
1891 – 1942
Eduard von Bauernfeld
1802 – 1890
Ellen Corbett
1954 – 2024
Elmer J. Holland
1894 – 1968
Emil František Burian
1904 – 1959
Emile Benassit
1833 – 1902
Esmond Wright
1915 – 2003
Franca Valeri
1920 – 2020
Frank Broadstreet Carvell
1862 – 1924
Frank Gifford
1930 – 2015
Frank Harrison
1913 – 2013
Frank W. Wheeler
1853 – 1921
Frank Wright
1932 – 2020
Frederick Marryat
1792 – 1848
Friedrich August II of Saxony
1797 – 1854
Friedrich Ludewig Bouterwek
1766 – 1828
Fritz Mannheimer
1890 – 1939
George Alfred Barnard
1915 – 2002
George Baldessin
1939 – 1978
George Child Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey
1910 – 1998
George Edmund Butler
1872 – 1936
George Graham Vest
1830 – 1904
George Helgesen Fitch
1877 – 1915
George Kenney
1889 – 1977
George Macdonald
1862 – 1940
George Makepeace Towle
1841 – 1893
George Preston Marshall
1896 – 1969
George Stephens
1813 – 1895
George William Balfour
1823 – 1903
Giorgi Leonidze
1899 – 1966
Gregor Horst
1578 – 1636
Harry G. Barnes, Jr.
1926 – 2012
Helena Rasiowa
1917 – 1994
Hendrik de Iongh
1877 – 1962
Henry M. Goodkind
1904 – 1970
Henry Montagu Villiers
1813 – 1861
Henry William Engleheart
1863 – 1939
Herbert de Souza
1935 – 1997
Hermann Hesse
1877 – 1962
Horace Lovell Massey
1895 – 1978
Hugo Schmitt
1904 – 1977
Ira Baldwin
1895 – 1999
Islam Khodja
1872 – 1913
Ivan Tovstukha
1889 – 1935
Jacqueline Cochran
1906 – 1980
James A. Kelly Jr.
1926 – 2013
James Buchanan, 1st Baron Woolavington
1849 – 1935
James C. Keck
1924 – 2010
James Marshall
1829 – 1889
James W. Denver
1817 – 1892
Jane McAdam Freud
1958 – 2022
Janko Šimrak
1883 – 1945
Jean-Louis Ferrary
1948 – 2020
Jenny Gröllmann
1947 – 2006
Jerry Garcia
1942 – 1995
Jerzy Ossoliński
1595 – 1650
Ji Chaoding
1903 – 1963
Johan Erik Hedberg
1767 – 1823
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